Re: [Evolution] Islamic Calendar Support File (Progress!)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj stampede org>]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Dan Winship wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:56:05 -0400
> To: rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)
> From: Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>
> Subject: Re: [Evolution] Islamic Calendar Support File (Progress!) 
>
> > If that's the case, what *is* the recommended way of handling dates 
> > prior to 1970?
>
> struct tm (or roll your own, since struct tm doesn't have exactly the
> same members everywhere). time_t's are only required to make sense for
> current times, not all past and future times.
>
> Besides, what if I want to schedule appointments with millisecond
> accuracy? :-)

Nooooooo!!!! that's just...WRONG, dude :-)

the day I find a coworker scheduling an appointment down to the milisecond
is the day I uh, do something so aweful I can't think of it right now :-)

Jeff

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